> > >Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after backups > > >are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can just do it without > > >waiting to manually unload? > For amdump this is easy. > > I didn't find a way to do this for amflush. > > You must start amflush in the forground in order to answer the > questions, and then it backgrounds itself. So you do not know when > amflush really ends.
You may try to run amflush with the -f switch. >From amflush manpage: With the -f option, amflush stays in the foreground. This is useful if amflush is run as part of another script that, for example, advances the tape after the flush is completed. -- Pavel
